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The lead story on Yahoo! News today is a LiveScience report summarizing research by UM political scientist Ronald Inglehart. His finding? That worldwide happiness levels are rising, from Denmark at the top to Zimbabwe at rock bottom. The U.S. ranks 16th on the Happiness Index. “Most previous research suggests that people and nations are stuck on a ‘hedonic treadmill,’” Inglehart said. (If it were a hedonic teeter totter, this would be a whole different story.) [Source]